Enfield threads

[Alan de Enfield]

Enfieldlock / Jim

I have a pdf of a 1945 parts list by vocab number (with illustrations) for the No1 if its any help I can email it to you.
It has illustrations and part numbers for all the screws you mention above.

3.2 meg in size.

[Enfieldlock]

Enfieldlock / Jim

I have a pdf of a 1945 parts list by vocab number (with illustrations) for the No1 if its any help I can email it to you.
It has illustrations and part numbers for all the screws you mention above.

3.2 meg in size.

I'll try and PM you.

[Mk VII]

bolthead retaining spring screw is another difficult one. Can't see any obvious substitute.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Go here:
Threads for Lee Enfield Rifle

Lots of good information.

Bruce

[Strangely Brown]

Go here:
Threads for Lee Enfield Rifle

Lots of good information.

Bruce

Er.....isn't that "Enfieldlock's" own link he posted in the first post??

[Peter Laidler]

From an enginers/engineering point of view, this has turned out to be a great article that I've followed with great interest. And as Enfield Lock says, spares are still available. But in 30 years time, it's no good looking in Machinerys Handbook (or the equivalent engineers bible available to those wild untamed colonials and antipodeans out there) for the Enfield thread forms etc. keep this info handy chaps...................

I have the very last EMER for the No1 Jim and the non BA sizes are given as Whitworth thread forms per TPI over a diameter.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

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Originally Posted by Bruce_in_Oz View Post
Go here:
Threads for Lee Enfield Rifle

Lots of good information.

Bruce

Er.....isn't that "Enfieldlock's" own link he posted in the first post??
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Mick

Er.....Yes....

Combination of different link "titles" and domestic blindness to blame.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Peter, could you make that availalbe to the rest of us?

Patrick

[Surpmil]

Very useful information, thank you.

Would it be true that most of the threads listed by their sizes originally had a nomenclature such as "Whitworth, BSC, BSF etc." and were originally identified as such?

[Peter Laidler]

Ah, yes Milsurp, nearly correct, but that's just the thread FORM. It's the pitch/diameter that makes the old Enfield threads such a bugger! It's the same as MANY threads of the era. Really just a thread form x a pitch (TPI) over a diameter!

BA was a favourite small thread for many years. As apprentices we tagged it as indicating Brass and Alloy (BA). It wasn't of course!